. The street railway review . rman Stone, Superintendent,and W. E. Barnhart, Auditor. The Review is under obligations to the Kansas CityTimes, for courtesies extended our representati\es whilein that city. ILLUMINATING PARADES FROM TROLLEYWIRES. IN Wilmington, N. C, the Street Railway Company,of which John II. Barnard is general manager,exhibited during a recent Trades Parade anextremely simple solution of the problem of satisfac-torily illuminating floats for night parades. For theinteresting occasion, the Wilmington Street RailwayCompany offered to take contracts for lighting thefloats with
. The street railway review . rman Stone, Superintendent,and W. E. Barnhart, Auditor. The Review is under obligations to the Kansas CityTimes, for courtesies extended our representati\es whilein that city. ILLUMINATING PARADES FROM TROLLEYWIRES. IN Wilmington, N. C, the Street Railway Company,of which John II. Barnard is general manager,exhibited during a recent Trades Parade anextremely simple solution of the problem of satisfac-torily illuminating floats for night parades. For theinteresting occasion, the Wilmington Street RailwayCompany offered to take contracts for lighting thefloats with incandescent lamps. By several this offer wasaccepted, and so gratifying were the results that it ismost probable that hereafter this method will be ex-clusively employed. To obtain contact with the trolleywire, a very simple trolley was devised. A piece of stiffspring brass wire was coiled in two planes—the being fastened to the float. The horizontal coilsafforded ample side motion, while the vertical ones gave. TROLLEY FOR FLOATS. good upward pressure against the trollev wire. Fromthis various circuits were led about the float, the lampsbeing connected up five in series. The ground connec-tion was very easily obtained by a little car with ironwheels six inches in diameter built to fit the gauge of thetrack, which was towed under the wagon on which thefloat was built. Thirt\- 16 c. p. lamps were found togive a splendid illumination to a very large float, andthis, with the simplicity and small cost of the arrange-ment, makes it quite certain that practically all floats shallbe so lighted in the annual parade next vear. As theirown exhibit the Wilmington Street Railway Companyarranged a float on which was seated Benjamin Franklindrawing electricity from the clouds. His kite stringconsisted of a light bamboo pole, on the end of which wasa broad sheet copper contact shoe. This shoe was en-tirely hidden b}- the kite, while the bamboo pole wasconcealed by
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